Please join us for our on the corner of National and Barrington in West LA this Friday, May 7th, between 6 and 7 p.m., to speak out against the escalation of war in Afghanistan and the continued military occupation there by our U.S. forces.

We can stop the war by having Congress not fund it. I'm forwarding this message from concerning the upcoming vote on the administration's war funding request. You can also read the complete article by David Swanson under OPEDNEWS.

Funding an escalation of war in Afghanistan with $33 billion is: illegal, immoral, against the public will, economically catastrophic, counterproductive on its own terms, and a cynically motivated intentional failure.